Mental illness has long been a leading cause of death and disability. Of all the patients who consulted a doctor, 30% to 60% were mainly due to complaints caused by mood disorders. Many productive people continue to maintain long-term neurotic life adjustments. And most people's mild emotional disorders are often not recognized, but have medical implications.

Despite this, ordinary people are still curious about mental health. He acknowledges the importance of good health and realizes that not everyone is healthy and may even take some basic precautions to prevent disease. If you don't fully understand your health, he will at least be interested and will seek advice from doctors, quacks or advertisements.

But in terms of his mental health, his attitude has been strangely indifferent until recently. If he thinks of this at all, he will think that this is strange to him, just as he might turn his attention to the antics of foreign bandits. He believes that his friends and colleagues are perfect mental health; he was surprised and shocked when his attention was forced by the sudden "sickness" of someone he knew.

If the affected person is a member of his own family, he blames the disease for being overworked, worried about financial conditions, physical illness or other socially acceptable factors. If the affected person is only an acquaintance, he may consider genetics, alcohol and syphilis as possible causes. He rarely tries to think smartly about why these things happen or try to tell him by reading or consulting an expert in the field. This attitude seems particularly strange when people consider the horror that is often considered a mental illness.

But even if one tries to tell himself, he will encounter difficulties. In unsupervised reading, people will find differences and confusion, which seems completely confusing.

There is no clear indication of avoiding mental illness, but a general understanding of the issues and processes involved often helps to deal with minor emotional distress, neglecting these as important factors in the development of serious illnesses. In addition to avoiding the problem of actual insanity, understanding the mechanisms that lead to mental disorders is the best guarantee against inefficiency, failure and misfortune in life.

Few people realize that psychiatrists not only deal with actual insanity, but also deal with all marginal conditions and maladaptation that are not normally considered to be in the category of mental illness.

Type of mental illness

In mental disorders, conditions are so severe that even trained people realize that patients are crazy. However, these diseases or mental illnesses are usually recognized until they progress so far that treatment becomes very difficult. No serious mental illness suddenly "suddenly appears." Symptoms last for months or years, but are usually disguised as neurasthenia, neurasthenia or physical illness.

The second group includes people who are not considered crazy by their associates but have a variety of special symptoms of almost any severity. Pathological fear, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, which are often diagnosed as neuropsychiatric disorders with some modified terminology, are characteristic of this group. These may also be chronically ineffective when the physical examination fails to reveal a sufficient basis for the onset of symptoms.

The third group consists of people who are apparently neither mentally nor physically physically, but who fail to make appropriate adjustments in society. It includes certain types of alcoholics, offenders, wanderers and abnormal sex actors. In this group, we may also include those who, although apparently undergoing good social adjustment, are greatly hindered by lack of, emotional instability, fear, and other personality disorders that interfere with efficiency and happiness.

Children’s issues constitute the fourth group

It is now widely recognized that training difficulties, bad habits, school problems, tantrums, enuresis and childhood errors are evidence of emotional disorders that can be corrected through appropriate investigations and treatments.

Weakness is an incurable innate defect with a strong genetic basis and therefore has little to do with mental or emotional disorders. It is mainly a matter of eugenics and sociology.

Even such an incomplete list of mental problems forces us to recognize that we can no longer treat mental illness or mental illness as the only area of ​​psychiatric investigation. Emotional disorders and personality problems, which may be seen as smaller forms of mental illness, constitute an eternal problem that touches us all.

Mental illness theory

Based on the scientific data at hand, we have no reason to conclude that heredity is a major contributor to mental illness. Still, heredity is often considered to be their most important cause. This view is unfortunate because it is assumed that mental illness is caused by heredity, and this hypothesis leads to the conclusion that it cannot be prevented or cured.

It is assumed that mental illness is hereditary because it is “being running in a family” because it is impossible to separate the effects of the environment or the so-called “social genetics” from the effects of physical inheritance. Social inheritance means transferring characteristics of a character or type of behavior by touching and imitating the person with whom it lives, while physical inheritance means passing a characteristic or type of behavior through the germ cell.

One only needs to consider the abnormal environment that exists in a family with mentally ill patients. Even if no genetic factors are active, it is important to realize that children in this family are likely to lose their balance mentally. In order to determine the genetic characteristics of a disease, it must be demonstrated that the disease is not caused by environmental factors and follows a well-established genetic law. In the case of most mental illnesses, these requirements are not met.

In addition, this is not the case, even if there are genetic factors, it is impossible to avoid the development of the disease by manipulating environmental factors. Therefore, we should turn our attention from the genetic theory of mental illness to a more profitable approach.

Certain mental illnesses have a certain physical foundation. For example, general paralysis, arteriosclerosis, aging, injury, brain tumors and the like are directly attributed to the destruction of brain tissue.

In addition, crime, hallucinations, fear, coercion or other emotional disorders may be caused by dysfunction of the endocrine glands; the process of infection, in which toxins can cause paralysis; the role of drugs; or the actual destruction of brain tissue. This situation can and does cause strange thinking and behavior. Their prevention and treatment are health problems, just like the prevention and treatment of any other physical illness.

On the other hand, thoughts and emotional attitudes are often the product of the social environment, not the product of physical illness. A man may make his hair grow to the shoulders because his mind has been disturbed by the activity of Treponema pallidum in his cerebral cortex; or he can comb his hair for a long time because he is taught a religious belief, which is long Hair is a symbol of Christ, just like life. In the first case, we interpret and deal with his anomalous behavior on a physical basis. In the second part, we explain it in a psychological and social way.

When investigating and dealing with abnormal behaviors and thinking that constitute mental health problems, it is necessary to investigate physical disturbances that may interfere with the complex functions of behavior and beliefs, and recognize those factors in the environment. Bother these same features. There is no real dichotomy or conflict in these methods. In some cases, physical disturbances predominate, while in other cases, psychological and social situations are crucial.

Understanding mental health and mental illness was originally published on Spring